InspIRCd is a modular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server written in C++ for Linux, BSD, Windows and macOS systems.
It was created from scratch to be stable, modern and lightweight. It provides a tunable number of features through the use of an advanced but well documented module system. By keeping core functionality to a minimum we hope to increase the stability, security and speed of InspIRCd while also making it customisable to the needs of many different users.
And after all it’s free and open source.
InspIRCd v4.0.0 is now available, download it from the releases page. This is the first stable v4 release which has been in development for five years. An overview of the changes in this release can be found on the docs site. A big thanks goes out to all of the people who have contributed to this release.
InspIRCd v3.17.1 is now available, download it from the releases page. The most notable changes in this release are: Fixed erroneously showing RPL_CHANNELSMSG when the hidden channel list has been blocked. Fixed not comparing server fingerprints case insensitively. Fixed not sending ERR_USERNOTINCHANNEL when a user tries to give a prefix mode to a user not in the channel. Fixed the mysql module not closing the TCP connection properly on connection failure.
InspIRCd v4.0.0 release candidate 3 is now available, download it from the releases page. This is the third and final release candidate on our new v4 branch which has been in development for five years. An overview of the changes in this release can be found on the docs site.
InspIRCd v4.0.0 release candidate 2 is now available, download it from the releases page. This is the second release candidate on our new v4 branch which has been in development for five years. An overview of the changes in this release can be found on the docs site.
InspIRCd v4.0.0 release candidate 1 is now available, download it from the releases page. This is the first release candidate on our new v4 branch which has been in development for five years. An overview of the changes in this release can be found on the docs site.
InspIRCd v3.17.0 is now available, download it from the releases page. The most notable changes in this release are: Added an example post-deploy hook script for use with CertBot, Dehydrated, or other ACME SSL (TLS) renewal tools. Changed SVSHOLDs to also force existing users to change their nick on add. Fixed a crash on shutdown on some systems when using --nofork and the ssl_gnutls module. Fixed sending nick/user/host changes from the wrong mask when using the ircv3_labeledresponse module.
InspIRCd v3.16.1 is now available, download it from the releases page. This is a minor release. The most notable changes in this release are: Fixed ssl_openssl marking long-lived TLS (SSL) client certificates as invalid. Fixed the regex_re2 module when building against RE2 2023-06-01 or newer.
InspIRCd v3.16.0 is now available, download it from the releases page. The most notable changes in this release are: Added support for the IRCv3 standard-replies extension. Added support for warning users when their client certificate is about to or has expired. Fixed resolving user hosts when the result is a simple hostname (e.g. localhost). Fixed the uniqueusername state not being broadcast on connect.
InspIRCd v3.15.0 is now available, download it from the releases page. The most notable changes in this release are: Added support for the IRCv3 extended-monitor extension. Added the regex_pcre2 module which provides the pcre regex engine with PCRE2. Fixed reading the MOTD when <connect:motd> is a path instead of a <files>/<execfiles> key.
InspIRCd v3.14.0 is now available, download it from the releases page. The most notable changes in this release are: Added support for the r WHO flag for compatibility with UnrealIRCd. Fixed not sending a WebSocket close packet when terminating the connection. Fixed remote users that are connected via UNIX sockets not having their endpoints set correctly. Fixed the websocket module only accepting normalised header names. Improved support for linking servers over UNIX socket connections.